eing ungenerated it is also imperishable, whole and of a single kind and unshaken and complete. Nor was it ever nor will it be, since it is now, all together one, continuous. For what birth will you seek for it? How and from where did it grow? I will not permit you to say or to think that it grew from what is not; for it is not to be said or thought that it is not. What necessity would have stirred it up to grow later rather than earlier, beginning from nothing? Thus it must either fully be or not (38).According to these characteristics, there no longer exists the possibility of generation, destruction, change, and motion. The goddess goes on to consider the consequences of her argument. According to her argument, nothing can come into being. In order to come into being, that something must have spawned from nothing or from something. That something couldnt have spawned from nothing because there is no nothing. Nothing cannot exist. Also, that something couldnt have spawned from something else because there is nothing other than what exists. These consequences of Truth are seemingly responsive to the Milesians theories of material monism. According to those theories, everything in the world comes from a single substance. However this is impossible since that single substance cannot be anything more than what it is. In her discussion of the senses, the goddess asserts that the senses are deceiving and therefore our perception of the world doesn't reflect the world, as it exists. The true world is something greater than our perception of it, and can only be approached through logic. The goddess says that our perception of movement and change is merely an illusion and she states: Unchanging in the limits of great bonds, it is without start or finish, since coming to be and destruction were banished far away and true conviction drove them off. Remaining the same in the same and by itself it lies and so stays there fixed; f...
